From the mouth of babes

The other day Maylee was "fixing" my hair. She put about a dozen ponytails in my hair. While she was doing that Morgan asked her, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Maylee thought for a minute and then said, "A bun." We burst out laughing and she added, "A bun in my hair." She has some goals-this girl! I was talking to Maylee and said to her, "No way Jose!" She said, "I not Jose, I am Maylee!" I said, "Then who is Jose?" She said, "He has black hair...and clothes...and he is Koby's friend." (Imagine the tone of duh mom!) We sure love this girl-she keeps us laughing all the time!

All in a day (off)

Last Friday I took the day off of work. During the morning Maylee and I hung out-just the two of us. Her favorite part was when we went to IFA and saw the baby chicks. She LOVED them and kept going back to look some more.

Her favorite ones were black and yellow. After lunch Maylee went to the babysitter and I went to Morgan's school for the Mother's day program the 3rd graders were putting on. Morgan dressed up and looked so beautiful.

They did a dance and then the moms came down out of the stands and danced with them. We did the hokey pokey, chicken dance and the bunny hop.

Very fun! Then we watched a movie they had made about how "Happy" mom's make them. It was adorable. They recited a poem and then gave all of the mom's a plant and cards they had made us. After that we left the school and went and got Morgan her 1st pedicure! It was so fun and she loved it! I ofcourse, had to get mine done. (BTW-one more item crossed off my 40X40 list!)

What an amazing day off, I need more of these days! Next time I need to have individual time with Kobers too.

Spring break 2014

This year for Spring break we stayed in a condo at Wolfe creek in Ogden canyon with Brian and Jody and their family. We had so much fun-I hope it becomes an annual tradition. The kids all got along so well and always seemed to have someone to play with. Koby hung out with Alysheah and McKenna-they watched a lot of movies and played a lot at the rec center. Morgan played with Cayden and Mckenna. Maylee and Cameron became best friends. We got to visit a dinosaur museum Hill air force base museum We got to explore for several hours and even build our own rockets! It was awesome! We got to go to the drive inn movie-Morgan and Maylee's first time. We took the seats out of the van and the kids sat on them between our vehicles. We played at the rec center-racketball, basketball, tennis, volleyball. Here is my fav picture from those activities: We played games, talked, watched movies, relaxed and ate lots of yummy food. It was an amazing vacation.

Museum of Natural curiousity

We were given tickets to preview a new museum from UVU. We went as a family and had a great time. Pretty cool!

GO UVU!

This year UVU men's basketball won the WAC-their first year in the conference. The team was amazing and we were able to attend the last home game. Koby wasn't able to come with us so we invited Peyton to use his ticket. The girls were all so good and they had so much fun. They loved watching the green man group, watching the cheerleaders, cheering for the players and avoiding Wally the wolverine.

10th grade wrestling

This year was a pretty tough wrestling year for Koby. He was at a new school, new team mates, new coaches, new weight. He went back to being the youngest on the team again. He had a concussion that put him out of commission for about a month right in the middle of the season. He had a few wins and a lot of losses-which he chose to learn from. The most impressive thing is that Koby didn't quit. In general wrestling teams end up much smaller by the end of the season due to kids dropping out or becoming injured. Koby went to practices even after his season ended so that he could help the guys that were going to state. He just kept working hard and we are proud of him for that. On Tuesday night we had the SHS wrestling awards banquet. It was a nice dinner for the wrestlers and their parents. We ate, watched a slide show and then they gave out awards. Koby was able to receive a letter for wrestling plus he was awarded the most improved sophomore on the team. We are expecting a great wrestling season next year! I know he will do great.

Morgan's field trip to space

Ok just wanted a catchy title...we didn't go to space. We went to the planetarium. It was really cool and I loved spending the day with Morgan and her friends. We watched a cool 3-D movie about Lemurs. The first picture of the four kids is our group-the kids I had to be responsible for-didn't loose any of them, well at least not for too long. The second to last picture is Morgan's whole class plus her teacher, Mrs. Taylor. We explored a lot and then got to watch another movie in the dome. Morgan had a great time and she still likes having me go with her to school field trips-I know that won't last long so I have to go to as many as I can now. PS-when I went to bed the night before the field trip, I discovered this note in my room along with clothes that she had selected for me.